Quarantine Confessions (share yours here)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only Fed on telework that still actually has things to do?
My friend who works for another directorate at our agency told me her “work” has pretty much dried up and she has no idea how her boss is spending all her time.
Meanwhile, business as usual for me. I get no breaks. My kids are on video games and YouTube all day long because I have to get things done.
But hey, no bra, no shoes!

I am a fed. I have a ton of work. Outward facing so o can’t even pretend.

Federal contractor here. I've been on calls and nonstop working since 9. I've got a contractual deliverable due at the end of the day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In my shopping frenzy I purchased several old-school snacks that I never eat and don’t particularly like. It wasn’t until I looked at the boxes on the counter that I realized that I had bought stuff that were my mother’s favorites when she was alive. I want my Mommy!

Hugs!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In my shopping frenzy I purchased several old-school snacks that I never eat and don’t particularly like. It wasn’t until I looked at the boxes on the counter that I realized that I had bought stuff that were my mother’s favorites when she was alive. I want my Mommy!

Hugs!

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

I’m a teacher at home. I’m in my 8th year of teaching and it has been the worst year by far so I am happy to have a break. I have all of the below grade level students (well, one of them is at grade level and 27 are below). Exhausting and frustrating are the word to describe my year so far. The classes were purposely created to put all of the low students in two classes and all of the high students in one class. All new students (unless they are gifted) come into the two low classes so not only do we have all low students, we have at least 5 more each than the gifted class. The low students also have some of the worst behaviors as you can imagine. Most of them cannot pay attention for longer than a few minutes at a time which makes teaching our curriculum a challenge. A few of them have family issues that spill over into school. We have two explosive kids who go from fine to throwing things in five seconds. My confession is that I hope the school year is over. Spring break was going to be in mid April and I don’t think I could’ve made it that long.

[Anonymous]

Let my 13yr old son go biking Yesterday. Thought I made it clear not to interact with anyone...
He ended up joining a bunch of other kids and went to the neighborhood gas station.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let my 13yr old son go biking Yesterday. Thought I made it clear not to interact with anyone...
He ended up joining a bunch of other kids and went to the neighborhood gas station.

Lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My confession is that I resent my boss. I’m a nanny and my boss is ‘working’ from home. She has done one 5 minute call and the rest of the time it’s, shopping, yoga, making giant messes left for me to clean, interfering with the kids day while I’m trying to home school, making more messes and just generally sitting around while I work 12hrs a day. She is going out and about not caring about other and now the boys are sick- with cold but who knows. I resent her because she doesn’t need me there 12hrs a day and I think she is lazy and a bad mom.

i guess you'd rather be unemployed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My confession is that I resent my boss. I’m a nanny and my boss is ‘working’ from home. She has done one 5 minute call and the rest of the time it’s, shopping, yoga, making giant messes left for me to clean, interfering with the kids day while I’m trying to home school, making more messes and just generally sitting around while I work 12hrs a day. She is going out and about not caring about other and now the boys are sick- with cold but who knows. I resent her because she doesn’t need me there 12hrs a day and I think she is lazy and a bad mom.

i guess you'd rather be unemployed

Lol you are a loser.

[Anonymous]

By sheer coincidence I restocked all or most of my home supplies right before the craze. Think about Costco size TP and Clorox wipes packages. I don’t tell anyone about it.
I ran out of rubber gloves though. I use them to color my hair so I am just hoping things will calm down in this regard in a couple weeks. Yikes!

[Anonymous]

Day one..
I have nothing to eat, I ignored calls for prepping. I was too cool.

Day two..
I started chewing on the toilet paper

Day three..
I ate my cat

Day four..
I ate my dog

Day five...
My slightly overweigh neighbor looks better and better every minute..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let my 13yr old son go biking Yesterday. Thought I made it clear not to interact with anyone...
He ended up joining a bunch of other kids and went to the neighborhood gas station.

Lol

And this is how Timmy died...

Mom send him on the bike to park
but he went play with boys
he got coronavirus there
and made a dying noise..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In my shopping frenzy I purchased several old-school snacks that I never eat and don’t particularly like. It wasn’t until I looked at the boxes on the counter that I realized that I had bought stuff that were my mother’s favorites when she was alive. I want my Mommy!

Hugs!

Thank you!

More hugs..
It is through those little moments and things like that that she is present with you there now and you need the feeling. Good for you OP.. it won't kill you but you need a cozy happy presence of your mom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let my 13yr old son go biking Yesterday. Thought I made it clear not to interact with anyone...
He ended up joining a bunch of other kids and went to the neighborhood gas station.

Lol

And this is how Timmy died...

Mom send him on the bike to park
but he went play with boys
he got coronavirus there
and made a dying noise..

Reading a Washington Post letter about lessons from Italy.
“... don’t let your teenagers out of your sight. They will sneak out with their friends, they will hold hands, they will share their drinks and food.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/03/17/hello-italy-your-future-is-grimmer-than-you-think/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In my shopping frenzy I purchased several old-school snacks that I never eat and don’t particularly like. It wasn’t until I looked at the boxes on the counter that I realized that I had bought stuff that were my mother’s favorites when she was alive. I want my Mommy!

Hugs!

Thank you!

More hugs..
It is through those little moments and things like that that she is present with you there now and you need the feeling. Good for you OP.. it won't kill you but you need a cozy happy presence of your mom.

Thank you for your kind words!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let my 13yr old son go biking Yesterday. Thought I made it clear not to interact with anyone...
He ended up joining a bunch of other kids and went to the neighborhood gas station.

Lol

And this is how Timmy died...

Mom send him on the bike to park
but he went play with boys
he got coronavirus there
and made a dying noise..

I laughed way too hard

Ring Around the Rosie updated for the 21st century